A client has suffered a cardiopulmonary arrest. Spontaneous circulation was restored but the client remains apneic. What form of mechanical ventilation would this client require?

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Controlled mandatory ventilation is the maximum level of ventilator support possible, providing a set number of breaths per minute and requires no respiratory effort from the client. In SIMV, ventilator breaths are synchronized with client inspiratory effort, so the client must initiate a breath for the ventilator to "kick in." AC ventilation provides a set number of breaths and also supports breaths that are triggered by the client. IMV provides a minimum number of breaths per minute and allows the client to increase the number of breaths per minute by spontaneous breathing rather than client-initiated ventilator breaths, in other words, the client can "breathe around" the ventilator breaths.

A Client Has Suffered a Cardiopulmonary Arrest